Screw My Childhood Sweetheart His Alpha Brother Marked Me First novel Chapter 150

Senna. Where are you? I can feel you. Talk to me,

It was River again. Only it wasn’t. I knew it was impossible. Only a fevered creation of my mind.

I want it to be you.I sent the words back into the nothingness of my imagination

Sen! It is me.

It’s not. I know it’s not. You can’t be real.

A growl echoed in my mind. It’s me. I learned to break through some elements of shielding. Listen to me.

I wanted to believe him so badly, but I was so tired. Everything was so heavy. I only wanted to slip away.

Sen. Stay with me. Don’t leave me. Please.

There was such desperation in his tone, it forced me to hold on. Love you, River.

I love you too. We’re going to fix this. Who has you?

Kaleb.

The sound of curses filled my mind.

I struggled to get out the next thoughts. Even without speaking them out loud, they hurt too much. He’s my father.

There was silence for a moment. I’m so sorry, Sen. We’re coming to get you. You just have to tell us where.

I don’t know. A basement jail. I’m so tired.

Just hang on. We need to complete the bond.

It was my fault we hadn’t. I’d held back from Knox because he’d hurt me. I hadn’t been ready to place my heart in his hands again, too scared he might break it. But it was too late. I couldn’t reach him. Tell Knox I’m sorry.

Tell him your damn self, River gritted out.

Sen?

My throat tightened at the sound of Knox’s voice in my head. Even through my unconsciousness, I could feel the tears sliding down my cheeks. There was no way this was real, but I wanted it so badly.

Knox. His name was a prayer on my lips. A reckless hope for an impossibility.

Feel me.

Knox’s words were a gentle command I had no choice but to obey. I let myself be pulled towards the sound of him. Towards that faint spark of light. I swore his heat wrapped around me.

Sen, I love you. You have me, always. Let yourself fall.

In that moment, a million memories swirled around me. Knox’s care and protectiveness. His grin and deep blue eyes. The way he tried to care

for everyone around him. It didn’t matter that our journey hadn’t been perfect. I loved him with everything I had.

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Chapter 150

I could feel the tethers keeping me from Knox. The ties that had kept me from cementing the last of our bond. In a single breath, I releaseu them. Then I was falling. But a pool of light caught me. It was warmth and comfort. It was the feeling of balanced wholeness.

Pain flared on my hip, and I gasped as my eyes flew open.

Rezah’s face filled my vision. “Oh God, Senna. I thought you weren’t going to wake up. How are you feeling?”

I couldn’t think about her words or question. My mind was only filled with one thing. A certainty to the depths of my bones.

“They’re coming.”

I pulled the waistband of my sweatpants down, lifting my T–shirt slightly. Rezah gasped. The entirety of my mark was filled in. Each point on the star and the center that signified me.

“How?” she whispered.

“I don’t know. I felt River in my head. I thought it was just the fever, but he said he’d broken through the shields around me. He connected me with Knox and…” My voice trailed off as tears stung my eyes. My bond was complete. Already the worst of the tremors and fever had subsided. But I felt like I’d fought a battle. In many ways, I had.

“I’ve never heard of something like this happening. A bond cementing when the two individuals aren’t together.” Rezah’s eyes widened as she took me in. “They have no idea just how powerful you are.”

I gripped her hand. “Don’t tell them.”

“I won’t say a word. We need to make them believe the medication had a delayed effect. But you can’t let them see your mark.”

I quickly tucked my T–shirt into the band of my sweats and tried reaching out with my mind. River?My voice echoed in my mind. But it wasn’t the same echo as when I’d first arrived here. It was as if I stood at the end of a long tunnel.

His voice echoed back. Caspian thinks he found you. We’re coming.

The words were faint, and I could hear the strain in them. River was pushing himself to the breaking point to reach me.

Be safe. Love you.

Love you, Sen.

Then he was gone. Panic lit in me at the loss of River. My tie to my bond. I breathed through it, pressing my hand to my mark. I carried all of them with me now. They were a part of me. The me that was stronger than I ever could’ve imagined.

“You’re talking to them, weren’t you?”

I looked up at the sound of Rezah’s voice. There was such longing in it. I spoke so softly I could barely make out my own words. “They said they think they’ve found where we are.”

Her fingers dug into my hands. “They’re coming?”

I nodded. “We need to be ready.”

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